Episode 25: Sean Brownell; From Ski Bum To Heli Ski Pioneer In Southeast Alaska
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A fishing boat flips in the dark in a 60-mph blow, and a 23-year-old stays calm enough to get everyone into a life raft. That same steady nerve shows up again and again in our conversation with Sean “Sean Dog” Brownell, a longtime Haines resident and one of the old-guard voices in Alaska heli skiing. We go back to where his winter obsession starts, how the Juneau ski-bum years turn into early heli days, and why those rough beginnings eventually demand real avalanche education and professional guiding systems.
From there, the story widens into what it means to build a heli ski…
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